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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 16: (search)
rains well to his right, and to have four divisions, unencumbered, about six miles ahead of General Slocum, within easy support. * * * * On the 16th, about Averysboro, the opposition continued stubborn, and General Slocum had quite a brisk fight, losing twelve officers and sixty-five men killed, and four hundred and seventy-seven wounded. The succeeding events are thus described in the Memoirs: From Averysboro the left wing turned east toward Goldsboro, the Fourteenth Corps leading. I remained with this wing until the night of the 18th, when we were within twenty-seven miles of Goldsboro, and five from Bentonville; and, supposing that all danghich two divisions of the Seventeenth Corps also got up. At that time General Johnston's army occupied the form of a V, the angle reaching the road leading from Averysboro to Goldsboro, and the flanks resting on Mill Creek, his lines embracing the village of Bentonville. General Slocum's wing faced one of these lines, and Gener